Jack doesn't mention it in his book, but I think he was running out of steam in the latter pages. 'Conversations with Jack Cardiff' (Justin Bower) tells us that it was filmed in four weeks for £98,000 from a story written by his friend in Switzerland David Osborn (with Liz Charles-Williams).
Apart from everything seeming very brown (if there had been any food it would have been brown food) the cheapness makes it feel like an extended episode of a TV series, with its overuse of zoom and cheesy 'here's an ad break' music. But twist involving identical twins (Francesca Annis) and priceless stamp is fun.
James Booth is almost a Morse prototype (serious, polite, likes classical music and seems to know a lot about stamps), Nicky Henson his assistant. Joss Ackland is their superior, Joseph O'Conor the girls' father, Sue Lloyd a model and George Murcell an amusingly grumpy doctor.
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